[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-datacenter-manager v2 1/1] docs: document API token-cache TTL effects

Samuel Rufinatscha s.rufinatscha at proxmox.com
Wed Dec 17 17:25:18 CET 2025


Documents the effects of the added API token-cache in the
proxmox-access-control crate. This patch is part of the
series that fixes bug #7017 [1].

This patch partly fixes bug #7017 [1].

[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7017

Signed-off-by: Samuel Rufinatscha <s.rufinatscha at proxmox.com>
---
 docs/access-control.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/access-control.rst b/docs/access-control.rst
index adf26cd..f4f26f2 100644
--- a/docs/access-control.rst
+++ b/docs/access-control.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ place of the user ID (``user at realm``) and the user password, respectively.
 The API token is passed from the client to the server by setting the ``Authorization`` HTTP header
 with method ``PDMAPIToken`` to the value ``TOKENID:TOKENSECRET``.
 
+.. WARNING:: If you manually remove a generated API token from the token secrets file (token.shadow),
+   it can take up to one minute before the token is rejected. This is due to caching.
+
 .. _access_control:
 
 Access Control
-- 
2.47.3





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